India revealed as world’s top sender of spam

If there is a doubt that India has 120 million Internet users then a more indirect statistic should clear it. India has now pushed past the U.S. and South Korea to become the top spam-sending nation. 9.3% of all the junk mails in the world now travel through computers in India. When we say “travel through” the spam message might not be originating from India but servers from the country are being used as a stop-over.

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8.3% of world’s spam travel through computers in the United States, and 5.7% go through South Korea’s computers. The statistics were released by security firm Sophos.

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